I hope your add might bring in some information on Catrina's murder. I worked at the restaurant were her body was found out side our door. It touched a lot of our lives. I believe once they found out she was a street person they didnt investagate as much. What made them choose behind our restaurant will also remain a mystery.

zapman

To withheld: You are so wrong when you ay the police didn't investigate this case thoroughly ((because she was a street person). I know the detective handling this case. He worked it as hard as any case. There simply are not a lot of leads in this case. Believe me he would like to solve this case as much as anyone.

zapman

To withheld: You are so wrong when you ay the police didn't investigate this case thoroughly ((because she was a street person). I know the detective handling this case. He worked it as hard as any case. There simply are not a lot of leads in this case. Believe me he would like to solve this case as much as anyone.

zed

@Withheld – where do you get off accusing the police of doing a less than thorough investigation because the victim was a “street person.” Do you have anything at all to back that up or are you just making the assumptions and stereotyping to police, essentially hypocritically doing the same thing you are baselessly accusing the police of doing. Having worked with the police extensively I have NEVER seen them treat one homicide victim differently than the next based on their socio-economic standing.

Dr.Stella

I lived behind the area where this young lady's body was found. I can't begin to describe the overwhelming sense of fear! Knowing a maniacal killer was out there lurking after the discovery of her body sent chills down my spine. I feared for the saftey of my own 2 daughters one who is the same age as Catrina was. Regardless of what kinda lifestyle she led, there was no reasoning behind the brutality this monster inflicted upon this poor hapless girl. The only reason that the investigation didn't take off in the first 48 hours was the fact that our media compromised the crime scene, by zooming in on her body and revealing that her hands were missing. As anyone knows certain aspects of a crime are not revealed to the public so as to be difinitive when interviewing the suspect,since he or she are the only ones ones with that particular information. However when the news aired that she didn't have any hands, the community where I lived were all talking about moving away because of the sadistic nature of the crime. This young lady was tortured for God knows how long after being repeatedly struck in her face. I can only pray that she was out after the first blow because he was intent on making sure no one would reconize her. I do hope that some DNA was left on her body and the crime scene as well, knowing that eventually this animal will end up behind bars and tested at some point, only to reveal his awful crime against this girl. When that will be is anybody's guess, but with the DNA and the fact all inmates get tested is the reason we have guys being released from prison after being falsely accused. Even so this person will have to face a higher power someday, and the Lord may not show any mercy to him as he didn't show any to her!

Sarah G

This isn’t what happened at all. Anyone reading this, I strongly suggest you try to find other links for correct information. 1.) She wasn’t a crackwhore “selling her body” the night she died, or snatched up for snitching on a pot charge. She was a typical girl in her 20’s, and that particular night she had been at a concert in downtown Denver. 2.) I don’t know why no one has been named a suspect in this case, because the police have video surveillance from a nearby 7-11, and 3.) She wasn’t beaten. She was brutally dismembered alive and left to die behind a strip mall in Westminster. This poor girl deserves much more respect than this site gives her!

Kirk Mitchell is a general assignment reporter at The Denver Post who focuses on criminal justice stories. He began working at the newspaper in 1998, after writing for newspapers in Mesa, Ariz., and Twin Falls, Idaho, and The Associated Press in Salt Lake City. Mitchell first started writing the Cold Case blog in Fall 2007, in part because Colorado has more than 1,400 unsolved homicides.